Emmylou
Harris’ 10" vinyl LP (6 tracks) (released in 2023 as part of an Amoeba Records/Polly
Parsons Kickstarter campaign that raised funds to release rediscovered Gram
Parsons material) has a live track sung with Gram Parsons, recorded at a
concert with the Fallen Angels in Boston, 1973.
Sid Griffin (The Long Ryders / The Coal Porters) has made a
new podcast available.
It’s a 90+ minutes “Byrds Special”.
From Sid Griffin’s website:
“The 37th Sid Griffin Podcast is ready to be heard and
enjoyed. No holiday theme this
year as Sid has done in past podcasts but…get ready for a surprise…he HAS done
an entire show devoted to his fave act, The Byrds.
No hits, of course, but outtakes, demos, and rare tracks not
even the most devoted Byrd fan has heard. We are talking tunes even the late
great Johnny Rogan never heard.”
You can
listen to the podcast on various platforms; details here:
It went
rather unnoticed but the latest vinyl re-release of Gene Clark and Carla Olson's
LP « So Rebellious A Lover » on blue vinyl has a bonus 7’’ vinyl
single with an unreleased Clark/Olson « home recorded » song.
Says Carla Olson:
« A
blue vinyl version of my album with Gene, ‘So Rebellious A Lover’, has
just been re-released in the summer and it includes a 7 inch single of Gene
singing a song in his house, and me singing the song with him in the house, it
was recorded in his lounge on a little cassette deck. It is really a wonderful
addition to the many reissues of that album »
The LP was
released on Sunset Blvd Records with reference LP-SBR-7021.
The single
is as follows:
Side A
Gypsy Rider
Recorded at Criterion Recording Studio, Hollywood, Ca. 1985
Bass – Joe
Read
Drums – Phil
Seymour
Guitar – George
Callins
Pedal Steel
Guitar – Ed Black
Recorded
By, Mixed By – Guy Roche
Written-By, Producer, Guitar, Vocals – Gene
Clark
Side B
Recorded at
Gene's House, Sherman Oaks, Ca. 1989
Number One
Is To Survive
Guitar, Vocals – Gene Clark
Written-By, Guitar, Vocals – Carla Olson
UPDATE
The mention that Gene And Carla’s "Number One Is To Survive" is an unreleased track was based on what Carla Olson said in a recent interview. Actually, our regular correspondent JPM just let us know that it’s not unreleased, as it appears on Gene and Carla’s double CD “Gene Clark With Carla Olson In Concert” released by Collector’s Choice Music as long ago as 2007, with the note “Gene & Clara In Gene’s Living Room, 1989”
It had
escaped me until now but I just found out that Chris Hillman plays mandolin and
sings harmony vocal on The Psychedelic Cowboys’ “Jangle Waltz” album from 2007.
I hadn’t listened
to the “Candy” soundtrack LP for years.
I did a couple
of days ago, and when listening to “Ascension To Virginity” by Dave Grusin, I couldn’t
help thinking I was hearing The Byrds.
Some research led me to someone who
plays on the album; he said it was Dave Grusin on keyboards, Gene Parsons on
drums, Clarence White on guitar and probably John York on bass. He couldn’t remember
about McGuinn being there as well.
Both Gene Parsons and John York were contacted by e-mail and confirmed that the track is by the both of them and Clarence White. McGuinn's participation is not confirmed.
A long-lost sci-fi film starring Gram Parsons is
the subject of a new book.
Called Saturation
70, the project also starred Julian Jones-Leitch (son of Rolling Stone Brian
Jones), Michelle Phillips, tailor Nudie Cohn and Prince
Stanislas Klossowski De Rola, the aristocrat and Stones’ confidant.
The music was by Parsons and Roger McGuinn while
the film’s special effects were due to be handled by Douglas Trumbull,
who’d then just completed Stanley Kubrick‘s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The project began life in 1969, when writer-director Anthony
Foutz was prepping a film written in collaboration with playwright Sam
Shepard, called Maxagasm, intended as a vehicle for The Rolling Stones.
Foutz attended a UFO convention in the desert at Giant Rock,
near Joshua Tree with a group of friends, including Parsons, Phillips, and
5-year-old Julian Jones-Leitch, to film test footage for Maxagasm; however, the
footage gave rise instead to another film: Saturation 70.
According
to the Kickstarter page for the book, the plot for Saturation 70 was this :
“A Victorian star child (Julian Jones-Leitch) who falls
through a wormhole into smog-ridden, dystopian, present day Los Angeles, is
compelled to embark on a hazardous quest to reunite with his mother (Marsia
Holzer). He is helped in this endeavor by a Nudie-suit wearing Fairy Godmother
(Ida Random), Nudie Cohn himself, and a group of aliens in hazmat suits: the Kosmic
Kiddies (Gram Parsons, Michelle Phillips, Andee Nathanson, and Stash Klossowski
de Rola), who have landed on Earth with a mission: to rid it of poisonous
toxins and pollution.”
The film was shot but never completed after financing fell
apart. Most of the footage subsequently disappeared.
The full
story for Saturation 70 – and Maxagasm – has now been documented in a new book, Saturation
70: A Vision Past of the Future Foretold, by Chris Campion, which features
never-before-seen imagery, on-set photographs, production stills and script
fragments.
Carla Olson’s new release, “Have Harmony, Will Travel 3”
includes three previously unreleased “live” duets with Gene Clark: “Gypsy Rider”, "Del Gato" and “Set You Free This
Time”
With The Hollies' Allan Clarke, members of Broken Homes,
as well as Jake Andrews, Robert Rex Waller Jr, Harvey Shield of the
Mighty Echoes, Shawn Barton Vach, and B.J. Thomas’s final recording.
(record label is BFD)
Tracklist:
1. In Another Land (4:34)
2. Face To Face (3:31)
3. Street Fighting Man (4:37)
4. I Can See For Miles (4:44)
5. Lead Me (3:57)
6. (Just Like) Romeo & Julie (3:24)
7. Stronger (6:28)
8. It Makes Me Cry (7:32)
9. A Love That Never Blooms (4:43)
10. Cool Water (3:22)
11. Gypsy Rider (4:58)
12. Del Gato (5:13)
13. Set You Free This Time (4:05)
---‘Sweethearts’
is a tribute to the Byrds 1968’s classic ‘Sweetheart Of The Rodeo’ album. Christian
Parker & Earl Poole Ball, one of the original sessions, co-produced and
contributed piano to this modern interpretation. JayDee Maness, one of the
original pedal steel players making a special appearance, joined the sessions. In
1968, the album managed to disappoint and, in many cases, alienate almost
everyone who heard it. It would be much later before it was recognized as the
iconic piece of work that it is. ‘Sweetheart Of The Rodeo’ is widely regarded
as the album defining country rock, but the rock part is almost silent. The
whole thing is almost out and out of the country, with huge dollops of pedal
steel, banjo, fiddle, and almost everything other kinds of instrument you would
expect to hear in the mainstream twangy country that existed at that time.---
1. You
Ain’t Going Nowhere (3:12)
2. I Am A Pilgrim (3:43)
3. The Christian Life (2:32)
4. You Don’t Miss Your Water (3:43)
5. You’re Still On My Mind (2:29)
6. Pretty Boy Floyd (2:31)
7. I Still Miss Someone (2:51)
8. Hickory Wind (4:07)
9. One Hundred Years From Now (2:37)
10. Blue Canadian Rockies (2:02)
11. Life In Prison (2:43)
12. Nothing Was Delivered (3:20)
13. Satisfied Mind (3:22)
14. Drug Store Truck Driving Man (3:57)
